Too much movie for the time allotted

Rating: 3/10 (26 June 2006)

This movie tried to do too much in the small amount of time. And Lincoln and Jordan's naiveté was an issue that was poorly handled when they were in the "real world". There were just too many instances where they eluded a disastrous death by sheer luck. This was a very good example of a film telling rather than showing. The conversation between Lincoln and Jordan when he told her that the island didn't exist seemed like it was a convenient transition to their escape into the real world for the rest of this too-long-for-its-own-good film. And the final scene where all of the clones were escaping out of the underground world was eerie and cliché. It's the kind of movie that has to be watched again to be understood, but I don't think I could sit through it one more time. And isn't Steve Buscemi always playing the cynical weirdo in every film?